Walter Withers | Eltham Farm
Walter Withers
Eltham Farm c1910
23 x 31.5 cm paper size
Watercolour on paper
Signed on the lower right
The M beneath the signature indicates that it came the studio of Withers and was authenticated by his second daughter Margery
$3300
Ellie Norton
(working late 1920s and 30s)
Born Riverton, South Australia -1909
Died Bribie Island, Queensland
12 December 1997
Ellie Norton was an Australian printmaker working in South Australia and later Bribie Island QLD in the 20s and 30s. Not to be confused with Canadian woodcut artist, Elizabeth Norton.
Little is known about the artist but a woodcut is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of SA and Ellie Norton is also discussed in Roger Butlers PRINTED book (1885-1955).
Discussion of SA printmakers using woodcut techniques..
’The technique was introduced to South Australian artists by Mary P. Harris in 1922…it was through her example the other South Australian artists, Charles Pavia, Ellie Norton and Dorothy Lungley produced works in similar character’ Roger Butler, p 132.
